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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
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I've loved reading all my life. 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
When all candles be out, all cats be grey. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. 
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your... 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
I believe time wounds all heels. 
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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. 
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My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t... 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. 
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. 
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... 
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Love is my religion - I could die for it. 